I still listened to this one. It was a great song and the band actually did make albums later on, but they never really had another hit (if I don't miss it completely). I loved the sound, the song, but what I loved the most was the lyrics, "Her boyfriend he don't know, anything about her, he's too stoned Nintendo....". Wait a minute I see it know, it's the spelling that killed them!
Ben bu şarkıyı hala dinliyorum. Sıkı şarkıydı ve grup aslında bir kaç albüm daha yaptı ama asla bu şarkının ününe ulaşamadılar. Şarkı ve tarzları güzeldi ama bu şarkının en baba yanı sözleri: "Her boyfriend he don't know, anything about her, he's too stoned Nintendo...."

5. Wheatus- Teenage Dirtbag

Here is a shocker again, how could we lost Wheatus? The song was cute + loser was a sickly cute movie and the singer can both sing male and female parts! Just imagine to have ultimate duets with just one singer, like a dream coming true. There are a few factors why Wheatus didn't make it if you ask me, most importantly there is a serious fashion crime in this video with awful hats, the voice of the singer is too high pitched to be a male voice and he got blinding white teeth which scare me a lot. Nevertheless a great song for every teenage losers out there.
Wheatus'un tutmamasına da inanmakta zorlanıyorum. Şarkı çok şekerdi ve "Loser" fazlaca şeker bir filmdi, ayrıca solist şarkının hem kadın hem erkek bölümlerini söyleyebiliyor, daha ne isteriz? Düşünün ki Wheatus tutsaydı, 10 yıldır tek adam tarafından söylenen düetler dinliyor olabilirdik. Bence Wheatus'ın tutmamasının bir kaç nedeni var, bunların en önemlisi kuşkusuz klipte çılgın şapkalarla modanın katlediliyor oluşu. Ayrıca adamın şarkının kadın kısmındaki ipince sesi beni biraz tıstırmıyor da değil hani. Yine de müzik dünyası böylece yıllarca eziklerin dinleyebileceği bir şarkı kazanmış oldu.

6. Joan Osborne- One of Us

It's the hair, it's the nose piercing, no it's Joan Osborne. We have the countryish God conscious, humanitarian One of Us on the 6th spot. It was a nice song, but I never could love Joan Osborne for some reason and personally I cannot imagine having more hits by her in which she preaches us one way or another.
O bir saç, o devasa bir hızma, hayır o Joan Osborne. Listenin 6 numarasında country'imsi hümanist parça One of Us var. Aslında şarkı güzeldi ama bir anlamdan ben Osborne'un tutmamasına seviniyorum, yoksa senelerce o ya da bu konuda vaaz veren şarkılar dinleyebilirdik kendisinden gibi geliyor bana.

7. Las Ketchup- The Ketchup Song

Ah, the song that no one can sing. Beside from the fact that a band called Las Ketchup is always cool, these three beautiful women rocked the charts with their weird, cute, entertaining song 2002. To be honest, I still think that they sing in gibberish (no offense to spanish, it just seems to me that this song cannot mean something serious). We all thought it was a silly song yet we all knew the silly dance. Long story short, they didn't make it either but that was a cool song to dance for a while....P.S.: I know that this is not the original version, but this is the one I knew and loved, so deal with it.
İşte hiçbirimizin söyleyemediği bir ketçap şarkısı (denemediğimizden değil tabii). Adlarının çok yaratıcı olması dışında, bu üç güzel kadın tuhaf, şirin ve eğlenceli şarkılarıyla 2002 yılında listeleri altüst etmişti. Her ne kadar şarkı bana ispanyolcadan çok uydurma bir dil gibi geliyor olsa da, ve her ne kadar şarkıyı dinleyen herkes bunun çok aptalca bir şarkı olduğunu düşündüyse de yine de hepimiz dansının ezbere biliyorduk. Ketçap şarkısı belki müzik tarihinin mihenk taşlarından olamadı ama bir süre hepimizi eğlendirdiği kesin.

8. Jennifer Paige- Crush

It's a wonder how this song ever made it, but she was big for a (short) while. The song is so so, the singer is the girl next door without any particular charm so it's no brainer why we didn't hear from her again. It's a cute love song though.
Doğrusunu söylemek gerekirse bu şarkının nasıl tuttuğunu anlamakta zorlanıyorum. Şarkı sıradan, ses vasat, kız çok ama çok sıradan, yani aslında Jennifer Paige'in neden tutmadığını anlamak hiç de zor değil.

I never liked this song, but I cannot stop hurling "who who who" if I ever listened to it. And it's the perfect one hit wonder, because no one on earth don't have a clue who these Baha Men are. Do you?
Aslında bu şarkıyı hiç sevemedim, ama yine de ne zaman çalsa "who who who" diye bağırmaktan kendimi alamıyorum. Ve bu şarkı tam bir tek şarkılık grup parçası örneği, ben şahsen Baha Men kimdir nedir hiç tanıyorum. Ya siz?

Bonus track: t.a.T.u.- All the Things She SaidBonus Şarkı: t.a.T.u- All the Things She Said

I put this awful song as the bonus track, because it revives my faith in the music industry. If a song is that bad, it doesn't matter if you act like a lesbian couple and kiss under the rain with school uniforms on, you still won't make it. They appeared in Eurovision and made another album, but as soon as the boys cooled their heads off, t.a.T.u was dead and erased from the music industry (thanks to the music gods!).
Bu korkunç şarkıyı bonus olarak listeye koydum çünkü bu şarkı insanın müzik endüstrisine olan inancını kuvvetlendiriyor. Şöyle ki eğer yağmur altında üniformayla şarkı söyleyen iki lezbiyen bile kötü bir şarkıyla ünlü olamıyorsa, müzik endüstrisi düşündüğümüz kadar da kötü durumda değil demektir. t.a.T.u daha sonra Eurovision'da yarıştı ve bir albüm daha yaptı, ama Tanrıya şükürler olsun ki bir daha hit bir şarkı yapamadılar.

6 comments:

1. For my graduate program in Russian, my research focus was on state responses to domestic violence against women. At the end of one intensive summer language class, the instructor - an older Russian "intellectual" or at least she liked to think of herself that way!! - gave every student a parting gift. I got the TATU CD in Russian, because, she said, I was "obviously a feminist." Can you even imagine??? Only feminists care about domestic violence? Or fake lesbian pop is feminist in nature? I don't even know... And this woman WAS a "liberal journalist" by sad Russian standards at that time. I was so pissed. (But I'd still play the CD at drunk parties so that everyone could laugh at it!)

2. There's a bar on the street where I work here in Ankara - they seem to have their music on a VERY boring rotation so AT LEAST twice a week when I walk by this bar leaving work to get to my bus stop, they are playing that dumb Joan Osborne song! It's surreal to hear it here.

3. The macarena video is more hilarious than I remember - the women in unfortunately shiny shorts and then those calm guys in suits - the guys in suits are too funny.

Do you know this song? It's my favorite 90s one-hit-wonder song since they are from my home town - they got "almost famous" with this one song and we were so excited - and it all went nowhere!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hxe85iErew

@Leslie: it is blasphemous to call tatu feminist, your teacher must be crazy (or very confused). And the band from your town was nice, why didn't they last longer?Lastly, I cannot name Sublime as a forgotten band as it will forever live in my heart and my playlist. They were one of the coolest bands of 2000's.